HAPPY NEW YEAR! And thanks for becoming a member of us right here at RogerEbert.com as we share our movie critiques, TV/streaming critiques, collections, interviews, journal entries and extra. All of our contributors and their particular person collections of printed work will be discovered right here.
None of it occurs with out this tremendous Editorial Crew: Managing Editor, Brian Tallerico; Editor-at-Giant, Matt Zoller Seitz; Contributing Editor, Nell Minow; Affiliate Editor, Robert Daniels; and Assistant Editor Clint Worthington. And our tremendous Company Crew: Sonia Evans and Daniel Jackson. I’m so grateful to them, and to all of you. Please sit back and revel in as we give because of them.
To begin your yr off proper and that can assist you select some good viewing from amongst lots of the finest movies of final yr, I current particular person prime ten lists of movies from over 39 writers and contributors at RogerEbert.com. In honor of my late husband Roger, I referred to as them our “Two Thumbs Up” picks. My very own High Ten Movies of 2024 checklist was headed by “Emilia Perez,” a movie in contrast to every other I’ve seen, with a blinding efficiency by Zoe Saldana and an impressive forged of girls who received the primary Feminine Ensemble Award on the Cannes Movie Competition. It additionally garnered 10 Golden Globe nominations. Different nice works included “Laborious Truths,” “Separated,” “The Nickel Boys,” “Nosferatu” and extra. We additionally printed a composite checklist headed by Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist.”
Brian Tallerico was joined by his fellow tv critics Nandini Balial, Cristina Escobar, Rendy Jones, Kaiya Shunyata and Clint Worthington in choosing the 25 Finest TV Collection of 2024.
All all year long, we have been lucky to have incisive movie critiques and opinion items from so many whose names are too quite a few to say, however they embody: Brian Tallerico, Matt Zoller Seitz, Nell Minow, Robert Daniels, Clint Worthington, Sheila O’Malley, Glenn Kenny, Christie Lemire, Tomris Laffly, Monica Castillo, Peyton Robinson, Simon Abrams, Marya E. Gates, Isaac Feldberg, Godfrey Cheshire, Carlos Aguilar, Katie Rife, Peter Sobczynski, Craig Lindsey, Zachary Lee, and others.
We additionally need to thank our phenomenal TV overview workers, together with Brian Tallerico, Kaiya Shunyata, Cristina Escobar, Rendy Jones, Nandini Balial, and Clint Worthington. Learn all of their work right here.
We had unimaginable conversations with outstanding artists this yr, together with Rachel Morrison, James Mangold, Jude Legislation, Paul Schrader, Payal Kapadia, Jesse Eisenberg, Danielle Deadwyler, Steve James, Lee Tempo, Man Maddin, Sean Baker, Coralie Fargeat, Gregg Araki, James Ivory, and plenty of extra. Learn all of them right here.
We additionally owe thanks to our Far Flung Correspondents representing many countries corresponding to Gerardo Valero, Seongyong Cho, Scott Jordan Harris, Omer Mozaffar, Wael Khairy, Lisa Nesselson, Olivia Collette, and Jana Monji.
As we embark on a brand new yr, I’d prefer to take a second to look again at 2024. In January, we returned to the Sundance Movie Competition, publishing dispatches from our editors Brian Tallerico, Robert Daniels and our contributors Marya E. Gates, Monica Castillo, Niani Scott, and Tomris Laffly.
Our annual Ladies Writers Week was held in March, showcasing the important work of so many good feminine writers. Right here once more, the names are too quite a few to say, however they embody Nell Minow, Sheila O’Malley, Justine Smith, Peyton Robinson, Jana Monji, Monica Castillo, Carla Renata, Sherin Nicole, Sarah Knight Adamson, Marya E. Gates, Olivia Collette, Nea Ching, Audrey Fox, Violet LeVoit, Caroline Madden, Danielle Mathias, Ashley Merryman, and plenty of extra.
On the finish of April, we held our newest installment of Ebertfest at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois. A few of our particular movie visitors included Malcolm D. Lee, Eric Roberts, Andrew Davis, Lisa Cortes, Kishi Bashi, Christine Swanson, Larry Karaszewski, Scott Alexander, and plenty of others. And we’re wanting ahead to welcoming you and extra esteemed filmmakers from April 23-26, 2025.
In Might, I returned to the Cannes Movie Competition together with Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, the place we produced a sequence of video dispatches that includes our contributors Ben Kenigsberg, Jason Gorber, Isaac Feldberg and Robert Daniels.
Black Writers Week was held in June and featured the work of contributors such as Robert Daniels, Carla Renata, Jourdain Searles, Travis Hopson, Niani Scott, Peyton Robinson, Brandon Cities, Brandon David Wilson, Reginald Ponder, Cortlyn Kelly, Kaiya Shunyata, Doreen Spicer-Dannelly, Shawn Edwards, Eric Pierson, Odie Henderson, and plenty of extra.
On the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition in September, I joined Cameron Bailey and Marianne Jean-Baptiste in presenting Mike Leigh with the TIFF Ebert Director Award. Brian Tallerico was joined by a few of our beforehand named writers to pen this yr’s dispatches on awards season hopefuls on the competition.
IN MEMORIAM: We misplaced many extraordinary folks this yr, together with Quincy Jones, Teri Garr and Maggie Smith. We additionally honored many extra luminaries in our Tributes part.
As soon as once more, I provide my because of all of our writers, and to you, our readers and subscribers for holding movie discourse alive and nicely. I pray for Peace and I am hoping that 2025 will probably be more healthy, happier and extra affluent for all. Right here’s additionally a want for a yr of FECK: Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion and Kindness, and naturally, Good Films!
Roger, the dialog about motion pictures continues…
